Ticket-counter.



G. B. HERINGTON.

TICKET COUNTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11. 1915.

1 ,2 l Q92 Patented Jan. 2, 1917.

A TTOR/VEY GEORGE B. HERINGTON, 0F ALHAMBRA, CALIFORNIA.-

TICKET-COUNTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1917.

Application filed May 17, 1915. Serial No. 28,595.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. HERING- TON a citizen of the United States, residing at Alhambra, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket- Counters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to ticket-counters for use in railway or other transportation depots or station ticket-offices.

The object of my invention is to provide a counter in which a main stock of tickets of any and all forms may be extensively stored, and a minor stock carried which is readily accessible for sale or for inspection, and for any and all acts and manipulations in connection with such sale or inspection, all without requiring the ticket agent to turn away from the counter, or from his position facing the purchaser.

In its general features, my ticket-counter comprises a novel super-surface arrangement of working openings, money cases and lighting fixtures, a sub-surface arrangement of money-drawers,- general ticketstorage or main stock drawers and lock-cur-.

tains for the same, and a movable tickettube container or carrier for the minor ticket stock for immediate use, said container being conveniently proximate to the working openings and being mainly housed below the counter surface, but also extending above said surface and there accessible to the ticket agent, all of which will be more fully understood by reference to the accompanying drawings in which-- Figure l is a plan of my ticket-counter. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same from its inner side. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line m-m of Fig. 1. Fig.4 is a vertical section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a vertical section on the line yg of Fig. 1.

1 is the counter having a top 2, the counter being formed on its front with a griprest 3 for the convenience of purchasers to assist them in taking care of their handbaggage. Above the counter-top 2, at convenient intervals, are inwardly opening false-tops 4, under the side ones of which are housed money cases 5, which may be provided with sliding curtains 6. Upon the.

false-tops 4 are carried the'lamps 7. Be-

tween the middle false-top and the side false-tops the general counter-top 2 is left exposed throughout its width, thus forming the working-openings 8, for the convenient transaction of business; and these openings may be guarded by removable wickets 9.

Under the main or general counter-top 2, throughout its length, except where the movable ticket-tube container is placed, are the receptacles for the main store or stock of tickets, said receptacles being, in their best form, a number of shallow drawers 10.

Between the tiers or columns of drawers 1.0 which are below the side false-tops and the general top 2 of the counter are money drawers 11. The money drawers 11 and the ticket storage drawers 10 may be protected by lock curtains 12.

The counter, at its middle, is fitted with a movable ticket-tube container. This may assume a variety of forms of independent tickettube-carrying members moving in parallel lines, each member being formed or provided with a series or succession of tubeholders each adapted to receive and hold a ticket tube. The specific details of this movable container form no part of the present application, these being claimed by me in a separate application, Serial Number 28,596, file?l May 17, 1915, contemporaneously herewit It is suflicient for the present application to describe said container as comprising a plurality of independent disks 13 mounted to rotate about a horizontal axis 14:, each disk carrying or being formed with a circumferential series of cages or pockets 15, each pocket receiving a ticket-tube 16. The disks 13 are separately rotatable by the application of any suitable power. For convenience I here show them as formed with hand-rails 17, to which manual power may be applied. The feature of the container which bears upon the present application, is its general disposition in the counter. It is so mounted that its lower portion is housed in below the counter top in a shell 18, while its upper portion extends above said top and is there exposed inwardly in an opening 19, to the ticket seller, so that he can readily turn any of said disks on its axis, and thereby bring around to his hand any particular ticket tube 16 he may desire. In these tubes are placed the tickets of the minor stock for immediate use, it being the intention to replenish the tubes from the general or main stock in the storage drawv entire business connected with the sale of ing of the tickets.

tickets, Without requiring the agent to turn away from the counter or from his position facing the purchaser.

A large stock of all kinds of tickets, coupon tickets, card or book or blank tickets or any form of tickets maybe stored in the drawers 10 and this stock will be convenient of access.

A smaller but Working stock of all forms of tickets may be kept in the tubes 16, and the agent by turning the container disks can rapidly and accurately bring any particular tube Within easy reach, for the examination, insertion, extraction, counting or account- The Working openings of the counter are convenient for stamping the tickets or making change.

I claim A device of the character described comfalse top of substantially inverted L-shaped 1 formation having a part thereof located above the general top and on one side of the same, but permitting access to the carrier at its rear end, other false tops of the same structure as the first mentioned top disposed upon the general top and arranged on each side of the ticket carrier, said false tops being spaced apart and forming a housing for movable receptacles, and removable guards positioned between said false tops and attached thereto, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of tWo subscribingv Witnesses.

GEORGE B. HERINGTON.

Witnesses:

WM. F. BOOTH, D. B. R1oHARDs. 

